†Brodioptera cumberlandensis Copeland 1957 (winged insect)
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Insecta - Megasecoptera - Brodiopteridae
Full reference: M. J. Copeland. 1957. The arthropod fauna of the Upper Carboniferous rocks of the Maritime Provinces. Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 286:1-110
Belongs to Brodioptera according to F. M. Carpenter 1992
See also Carpenter 1963, Copeland 1957 and Durden 1984
Sister taxa: Brodioptera pintoi, Brodioptera sinensis, Brodioptera stricklani
Type specimen: GSC 10390, a wing. Its type locality is West Bay, Parrsboro, which is in a Westphalian A terrestrial siliciclastic in the Joggins Formation of Canada.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at West Bay, Parrsboro
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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